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Uganda Cranes will face South Sudan on February 16 after the world’s newest nation confirmed the international friendly. Bobby Williamson’s side play Congo Brazzaville in the first round of the 2013 Nations Cup qualifiers on Fifa dates February 28-29. The friendly against South Sudan will help Bobby have a closer look at local-based players to which point he has summoned 23 of them. The summoned players start training on Monday in preparation for this game.
“More players could be added or some could be removed,” said Bobby.
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IGAD Discusses Sudan, Somalia, Ertirea Issues
February 5, 2012 - The 20th extra-ordinary summit of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) of Heads of States and Governments discussed and passed resolution to tackle situations about the civil war in Somalia, the crisis in the two Sudans, IGAD Minimum Integration Plan and Piracy off the coast of Somalia. The summit also condemned Eritrea and asked to further strengthen sanctions. Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, Chairman of IGAD said in a press briefing right after the summit, “The summit addressed three key points. Firstly, the integration of IGAD both through the acceleration of infrastructure projects linking us and the establishment of free trade area in the IGAD Region. The secretariat has done a spectacular job in terms of preparing the ground work and everyone agreed to implement this plan.
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South Sudan signs MoU with UAE Investment Company
As part of the ongoing efforts to mobilize foreign investment to the country, the newly founded and underdeveloped Republic of South Sudan has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the leading Abu Dhabi Investment Company of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in order to invest in various sectors in South Sudan. The Company has expressed its willingness and readiness to invest in South Sudan and also help to mobilize other partners from Europe, America and Asia to invest in the country. The Vice President of the Republic of South Sudan, Hon. Dr. Riek Machar, signed the MoU with the Company’s CEO, Nazem Fawwaz Al Kudsi yesterday in Abu Dhabi city. Areas of cooperation and investment by the company include railways, roads and bridges, housing estate, aviation, shipping, energy and utilities, oil and gas services, financing and securitization, telecommunications, ICT services, minerals and mining, banking, sports facilities, among others.
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| Mission HOPE South Sudan Follow-up
SIOUX FALLS, SD - In November KELOLAND News brought you the story of one Lost Boy of Sudan's mission to go back and help his homeland. Atem Juowei, along with the help of Mary's Project, collected school supplies here in Sioux Falls for children in his village and made plans to build a library there. While Atem remains in Sudan working to bring his brothers to the U.S., one of the members of Mission Hope South Sudan is back to show us the progress they made in the third-world country. After years of civil war, refugee camps and finally immigrating to Sioux Falls, one of Sudan's Lost Boys, Atem Juowei is back at the place of his birth...pointing out the actual hut where he was born. And he is about to be reunited with his mother for the first time in 20 years. She drops to her knees at the site of her son.
Full Story | Lakes state Marginalized in RSS Leadership: Politics of Appeasement in Juba is cancerous ailment!
First and foremost, allow me to register my sincere and gratitude and to salute our dear President Joshua Gen. Salva Kiir Mayardit, our Mighty SPLA forces across South Sudan, our SPLM politicians and South Sudanese people at large for their unreserved struggle to achieve this total liberation that resulted into independent July 9th 2011. I knee down in your honour! When people of South Sudan took up arms against oppression and marginalization of the Sudan’s peripheries and in particular the South Sudanese then, it was addressed as “Southern Problem” by traditional leaderships of Arabs and Muslims north, which today is not, a Southern Problem as per se but rather a Sudanese problem that has had engulfed Darfur for nine years now, South Kordofan and Blue Nile states on fire and this same situation is simmering in Eastern Sudan.
Full Story | Laptops for South Sudan
In newly independent South Sudan, where roads are dirt, electricity comes from portable generators and people live in earthen huts, there is still the Internet.
That's why Esquimalt resident Peter Dibben, a recently retired lieutenant with the Royal Canadian Navy, is looking for cast-off laptop computers he can transport to a South Sudan high school when he heads there this month, so students and teachers can go online. "I would really like to donate half a dozen laptops that could really make a big difference to people in that school," Dibben said. Dibben, 49, spent about six months in the newly independent Republic of South Sudan as an unarmed UN military observer. He said he got the idea for the laptop-computer donations while talking to the headmaster of a high school in South Sudan.
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| Sudan's Beshir in Saudi for talks
Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir arrived on...
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